[pdx] A Moment of Silence for Cartoonist John Callahan , 1951-2010

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Just broken by the WWeek: Callahan, the famous PDX quad who draws teh politically-incorrect funnay, has passed on after a year of fighting additional ailments apparently brought on by surgical complications.

He was 59 years old, which, I suppose if you had asked him, was a whole lot of years longer than he thought he’d have gotten.

Also, centered at the bottom of his website’s front page (http://callahanonline.com) underneath his portrait photo is simply the notation “1951-2010”, which seems about right in tone – Callahan may have had many moods, but public sentimentality never seemed to be one of them.

Thanks for the feedback. In citing the age, I was going with what Willamette Week had. But, sharp eye. Thanks again for that.

Actually I was the one who just edited that Wikipedia entry, again using the WW obit as source.

It's hard to get something past you, tell you what! B-)

I was a fan of Callahan's cartooning work, but mostly the early stuff. For a long time, I got the WW specifically to see Callahan's panel. Although I did detect, say in the last 5 years or so, that he wasn't as funny as he used to be … it was almost as though he was aping his younger self's work. But I had read somewhere (where, I don't recall) that he was growing bored with comic drawing, and when you been doing it as long has he has, I guess eventually it would grow a bit stale.